In the weeks after Mr Trump dismissed former FBI Director James Comey, the White House was hit with a series of damaging leaks, from Mr Trump alleged disclosure of highly classified intelligence to Russian officials, to his son-in-law’s reported attempt to set up back-channel communications with Russia.

The number of leaks coming from inside the government, sources say, have advisers concerned that someone is out to get them.

Commentators on Fox News, Mr Trump’s channel of choice, have helped push the idea that these leaks come from an American ‘deep state’ – a body within the government working to bring down those in power.

Host Sean Hannity, for example, has condemned what he called ‘deep-state Obama-holdover government bureaucrats who are hell-bent on destroying this president.’

‘It’s time for the Trump administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before it’s too late,’ he said.

Breitbart News, the right-wing website previously run by Mr Bannon, has also advanced this theory, with headlines like ‘‘Deep State’ Suspected in EPA Press Release ‘Error’’ and ‘The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight with Full Coverage.’

Meanwhile, Mr Bannon appears to be benefiting from the theory himself. Axios reports that the once-sidelined presidential adviser is now setting up a ‘wartime consigliere’ for a battle against the ‘deep state,’ media, Democrats and investigators.

Even former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has claimed there are ‘massive bureaucracies that do whatever they want and set up deliberate leaks to attack the president’”

See?

This biased liberal article slyly puts “deep state” in quotes and uses “so-called” as if it’s some harebrained theory.

But Fox News is on to them.

Recently, Lou Dobbs tweeted his acknowledgment of a current deep state’s existence too.